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Julian Jarrold’s adaptation — or reimagination — of Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited is not likely to be embraced by purists, but it does feature excellent lead performances by some of the best young British actors around. On a recent visit to Toronto, lead performers Hayley Atwell (Julia Flyte) and Matthew ...
BY Jason Anderson
One of world cinema’s most significant talents to emerge this decade, Carlos Reygadas has crafted three arresting and ambitious features that place him firmly in a lineage of such ...
A fanciful yet deeply felt homage to his hometown, My Winnipeg (see On Screen page 13) may be both Guy Maddin’s most personal project and his film with the broadest appeal. While non-Winnipeggers ...
BY Adam Nayman
Nargis Ahmad isn’t an actress, and she’ll tell you so herself: “I have bigger fishes to fry,” she says over the phone from Ottawa, where she’s employed as a case coordinator for Ontario Works.
With their acclaimed 2005 documentary Metal: A Headbanger’s Journey, Toronto filmmakers Sam Dunn and Scot McFadyen hammered a cultural study out of heavy metal, using Dunn’s lifelong devotion to headbanging —?and his background in anthropology —?as their ...
Having copped awards on both coasts for her work in Pamela Gien’s one-woman show The Syringa Tree, Caroline Cave merits consideration as one of Canada’s leading stage performers. After her remarkable turns in David Christensen’s 2005 drama Six Figures and...
Having dropped all that weight he gained in Super Size Me, the New York documentary filmmaker was in fighting shape to take on his biggest challenge yet: finding the architect of the 9/11 attacks. To make Where in the World Is Osama Bin Laden? Spurlock ...
The director of Frownland — a special-prize winner at this year's South by Southwest film festival — discusses the fine art of discomfort
Long one of the country’s most underappreciated directors, John Paizs enjoys a bit of attention when the Royal Cinema (608 College) hosts a mini-retrospective on April 10, co-presented by indie-music festival Over the Top.
David Schwimmer may forever be known as Ross, but not for lack of trying. After cutting his teeth directing episodes of his money-maker, Friends, he has churned out the British comedy Run, Fat Boy, Run (see review page 23), starring Shaun of the Dead/Hot ...